The Men Who Made Us Fat

‘The Men Who Made Us Fat’ was such an amazing documentary and it has been uploaded to YouTube so we thought we’d just include a quick link for anyone who didn’t manage to see it. In particular, Parts 1 to 4 are the most informative of how the state of health and nutrition has got to where it is. We’d be interested to hear your views and comments below.

Some of this ties in really well with what we have previously written about with regards to corruption in the food industry and in particular, lobbying by the sugar association.

Hi @macnutrition – have you seen the BBC health news article http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-20050420
One of the big points from the men who made us fat was around asking food companies to self regulate and how this just does not work – the Dracula in charge of the blood bank comment springs to mind. Despite this they are still using a voluntary system…. seems like a waste of time.
It also looks like the goverment is planning to hide behind this statement:
If a consistent system is not in place by the summer of next year the government will feel it can lay the blame elsewhere.
that’s really going to help the state of the nation isnt it…
kind regards
Martyn Rackham @mofthesys

MartynRackham Hi Martyn, yes, the new food labelling system in the UK is a ridiculous idea but yet another system that policy makers can use to say they are trying to tackle the problem and food manufacturers know will allow them to sell more not less processed food but can ‘look’ like they’re trying to help.